By:Hertha Ekandjo
The Namibia Institute of Public Administration and Management (Nipam) and Eagle FM media house signed a three-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Thursday.
The agreement aims at setting out areas of cooperation between the media house and Nipam.
Falling under the MoU is training and capacity building, whereas the parties recognised the importance to promote and develop areas of mutual interest in fields related, but not limited to, to hosting conferences/symposiums, marketing and information dissemination.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Eagle FM media house Executive Director John Walenga said he is grateful the two parties are able to work and agree on a national discourse about the country’s economy, politics and anything in between that would be for the benefit of society at large.
“We are more excited that the first programme we are going to kick start with will be about the economy, the national symposium on the Namibian economy,” Walenga said.
He mentioned the biggest mover of economic activities are people who are living in the informal settlements.
Walenga questioned how far one has to go to identify the real people who are mostly referred to as the informal sector. “They are just referred to as the informal sector, but who are they?”
He said it is very crucial to identify these people and, in the end, help the government to be able to assist people, not only in the vacuum but in the economic space.
Meanwhile Nipam’s Managing Director, Sankwasa Mubita said getting into the partnership is an exciting moment to use the platform to reach out to everyone that they are not able to reach physically in all corners of the country.
Mubita said all public servants, through the Eagle FM media house, will benefit from Nipam programmes and facilities.
“Through this partnership, we look forward not only to the paper that we are signing today but to the actual tangible results that will come out of it. We need to put our feet down to make sure that it does not mean a talk as many agreements are,” he said.
Mubita added that the major focus is on the economic part, with the role of changing the governance, the economic status of the country as something that we can do to influence all that into the greater good of the country.
He said, as an institution, through the Eagle FM media house, they will be able to reach the public at large in terms of attending the capacity development initiatives to update their skills and delivery of services from all sectors.
Eagle FM, NipamSign Three-Year MoU
